Podcast – Paul-Claude Bérubé This year we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the independent living movement.

I wanted to be an active person, I wanted to be able to live an independent life, or if you prefer an ordinary life, that is to say, to have a family, a wife, children, to work, to earn an income, eventually to buy a house and to travel, to enjoy life, even in spite of my disability. [...] Whereas in my life, it is always to see from an analytical point of view, to look at the situation, to make the analysis and to find a solution and not to stop at the problem. [...] That is to say that the people with the independent living movement, as it is now known in Canada and in the whole world, but more particularly in Canada here in Quebec, we can always claim that the Canadian population, the Quebec population is much more sensitive to the issues that concern people with disabilities. [...] So, but later on, with the independent living movement, we saw more and more people like me, but who like others, go to the grocery store and do like other customers, take a basket, push the basket and put things in it and pay for their groceries at the exit, take it to the car, put it in the trunk of the car and drive home, and there are others who go with paratransit and have the groceries they. [...] There have been many mistakes made in the past in transportation, especially in the services, but I am optimistic for the future that it will improve and the more people with disabilities will participate themselves in the development of society, the more they will influence others and will help these changes to happen quickly.